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1. Waiting in maxscript?

   

   Topic by zoombapup · Oct 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hey all. I've been playing with the "grabviewport" script the Xoliul shader guys have on their site and I came across a problem I figured I'd try and fix, only I'm having no luck finding an answer to a maxscript issue. In their grabviewport script, it calls ResizeViewPort (a function of theirs that sets the viewport size…

2. Re: Waiting in maxscript?

   

   Reply by monster · Oct 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   The sleep function pauses max and script execution. It's mainly useful for waiting for external utilities.

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   Reply by sprunghunt · Oct 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   I don't know anything about max script but something like: timevalue = getcurrenttime();if (timevalue == timevalue + 1) {return timevalue;} sounds about right...

4. Re: Waiting in maxscript?

   

   Reply by Warheart · Oct 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   You can pause script execution in maxScript with "sleep <time_in_seconds>". I don't know whether that will allow the viewport to catch up while it's sleeping though. Edit: Oops, looks like Nysuatro beat me to it :)

5. Re: Waiting in maxscript?

   

   Reply by zoombapup · Oct 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Yeah, I was hoping for a yield (pause script but allow others to continue). So does anyone know if there is a callback when the viewport has finally settled down exposure wise? Or some way to know if the exposure has finished changing?